B Impact Teams

B Impact Teams are college/university programs consisting of student teams who work together to assist businesses in measuring and managing their social and environmental impacts on people. These student consulting teams serve their local communities by assessing social and environmental metrics of community businesses using the B Impact Assessment as a road map to benchmark their performance and discover best practices.

One of the first B Impact Teams, the NC State B Corp Clinic, was started by B Academics co-founder and executive director, Jessica Yinka Thomas in Summer 2015. Jessica is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Business Sustainability Collaborative at the Poole College of Management at NC State University. As an advocate of the B Corp movement and stakeholder capitalism, and a leader in the experiential education field, Jessica saw an opportunity to connect students with businesses interested in improving their impact using the B Impact Assessment as a roadmap and the B Corp Movement as inspiration for the power of business to drive positive change. The B Impact Team model has been scaled to academic institutions around the world. B Academics is working to build a community of B Impact Teams and develop resources and programs to support the development of new BITs.

B Academics has developed a broad range of resources and programs to meet your B Impact Teams educational needs from open public access resources to short webinars to customized training! How can we be a resource to you in starting and running your B Impact Team?

Explore our B Impact Teams directory showcasing a sample of nine exemplary programs out of 29 global initiatives. These B Impact Teams programs are leading the way in using business as a force for good, demonstrating the power of collective action in creating a more sustainable and equitable future

B Academics is thrilled to announce the launch of our very own Summer 2024 B Impact Team program! This exciting initiative is designed to empower undergraduate and graduate students from around the world to make a positive impact through collaborative action.

Check out our upcoming events page for our next B Impact Teams Webinar which will provide participants with a roadmap of how develop, launch and run a successful B Impact Team on your campus!

Check out our 4 hour customized workshop on how to start and run a B Impact Team along with hundreds of tools and resources to jumpstart your BIT.